Origin of the name FREJA.
Etymology of the
name FREJA.
Meaning of the baby name FREJA.

Freia, Freja
or Frigga, from the Gothic Frijon, to love, known also as
Holle
or Holda
(Gothic holthen, to help), and Bertha or
Perchtha (Goth.
peracta, shining), was the Teutonic Aphrodite or Goddess of
Love. The separate personifications of her various names and
attributes in different localities resulted in the creation of at least
four distinct goddesses or fairies (Freia, Frigga, Holda and Bertha),
who in spite of the conflicting legends that have clustered around them
still preserve a congenital likeness that betrays their common
origin.
Freia, in the final form of the Norse legend, became
the representative of sexual love, as Frigga was of motherly love.
Being abandoned by her husband Odin in favor of Frigga she has ever
sought vainly for him and wept tears of gold. She was the most
beautiful of all the goddesses, her hair was long and golden, she was
clad in a white garment that spread a rosy refulgence. Her voice
was of enthralling sweetness. She loved flowers and haunted rose
bushes and willow trees. She lived in a garden divided by limpid
waters from the outer world and containing the Fountain of Youth, where
the sources of life were renovated, while all around played the souls of
the unborn. She rode in a chariot drawn by two cats. Not
only was she the goddess of love but also of house-wifely
accomplishments. At the period of the winter solstice, when the
German tribes celebrated their rites of sun-worship, she visited mortal
households and noted the industry of maidens at their spinning. In
Germany the distinction between Freia and Frigga was not so accurately
outlined, and under either name the goddess combined the characteristics
of Juno and of Venus, the motherly and the erotic elements.
Christianity frequently confounded her, on the one hand with Venus as
emblematic of sinful lust, and on the other with the Virgin
mother. The Venus who seduced Tannhauser inhabited the Horselberg,
an old place of Freia worship. The kindleinsbrunnen of
mediaeval Germany which were under the protection of the Virgin and to
which married women made pilgrimages in the hope of being blessed with
children were confused reminiscences of Freia's fountain of life. (Heroes
and Heroines of Fiction, Classical Mediaeval, Legendary, Walsh,
1915)